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treasurer

RANJANABEN mistry

Namaste and Jai Shree Krishna
It gives me tremendous pleasure to present a brief summary of financial activities. First of alI I would like to express my gratitude for the wisdom, support and hard work by Rajnikantbhai Mistry from Leicester and Bhupendrabhai from Wellingborough as my assistants, without whom it would not have been possible to maintain high

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standards over the past four years. I also express my sincere appreciation to Jay Mistry of London who has provided excellent advice and support as our accounts examiner.
This year we have simplified our financial management system so it will be much straightforward to create reports. In terms of financial activities, we have had a mix of surplus and deficits from SPA( UK) activities. Whilst the overall balance is stable, we continue to apply the principle of self-funded events planning, supplemented with sewa and goodwill of volunteers and participants. Where there are shortfalls, we assess the root cause and plan forward based on lessons learnt. On the whole, due to popular support Mahila Samelan and Seniors Sneh Milan have shown to be fully self-financing events. For all other events I would request our members to fully participate. For our Prajapati Sandesh publication, SPA( UK) would dearly like to see many of our
Prajapati community members who own businesses, to submit advertisements so it will help to take the Sandesh to a unique and the very highest quality publication.
SPA( UK) has continued to raise funds and support charitable causes. This year the Golf Tournament raised £ 700 for the Education Fund, we raised £ 15.944.16 for the Nepal Earthquake disaster appeal and with addition of funds from SPA( UK), the Samaj will donate a sum of £ 20,000 as soon as we chose a suitable project.
The Nairobi Trust Fund’ s income has continued to be used to fund charitable causes through SPA( UK) ITF. The value of the Nairobi Trust Fund at the end of the financial period stood at £ 104,587.31 of which £ 6,998.64 is available for charitable use.
Ranjanaben M Mistry Treasurer, SPA( UK), 2016-2017
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